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|Year=1859 | |Year=1859 | ||
|Year Number=51 | |Year Number=51 | ||
|Headline=Girls Play | |Headline=Girls Play Base Ball at Eagleswood School | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Tags=Females, | |Tags=Females, | ||
|Location= | |Location=New Jersey, | ||
|Country= | |Country=United States | ||
|State=NJ | |State=NJ | ||
|City=Perth Amboy | |City=Perth Amboy | ||
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|Age of Players=Youth | |Age of Players=Youth | ||
|Notables=Francis Dana Gage | |Notables=Francis Dana Gage | ||
|Text=<p>In 1859, women's rights advocate and abolitionist | |Text=<p>In 1859, the women's rights advocate and abolitionist Frances Dana Barker Gage wrote a letter from St. Louis to physician friends at the Glen Haven Water Cure in New York. She informed them of positive advancements in physical fitness for students at the Eagleswood School in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Among the games both male and female students were playing was base ball. </p> | ||
|Sources=<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">"Muscle Looking Up," Austin, Harriet, N., Dr. and Jackson, James. C., Dr., eds., <span style="font-style: italic;">The Letter-Box</span> | <p>Gage concluded that she was planning to ask the principal at Dansville Seminary (in St. Louis?) to add baseball to its program for girls too.</p> | ||
|Sources=<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">"Muscle Looking Up," Austin, Harriet, N., Dr. and Jackson, James. C., Dr., eds., <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Letter-Box,</span></span> Vols 1 and 2, 1858-9, (Dansville, NY: M. W. Simmons, 1859), 99.</p> | |||
|Query=<p>Is this the first time, as far as we know, that females played base ball by modern rules?</p> | |||
|Submitted by=Deb Shattuck | |Submitted by=Deb Shattuck | ||
|Submission Note=Posted 10/4/2013 | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | FemalesFemales |
| Location | New JerseyNew Jersey |
| City/State/Country: | Perth Amboy, NJ, United States |
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| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | YouthYouth |
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| Notables | Francis Dana Gage |
| Text | In 1859, the women's rights advocate and abolitionist Frances Dana Barker Gage wrote a letter from St. Louis to physician friends at the Glen Haven Water Cure in New York. She informed them of positive advancements in physical fitness for students at the Eagleswood School in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Among the games both male and female students were playing was base ball. Gage concluded that she was planning to ask the principal at Dansville Seminary (in St. Louis?) to add baseball to its program for girls too. |
| Sources | "Muscle Looking Up," Austin, Harriet, N., Dr. and Jackson, James. C., Dr., eds., The Letter-Box, Vols 1 and 2, 1858-9, (Dansville, NY: M. W. Simmons, 1859), 99. |
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| Submitted by | Deb Shattuck |
| Submission Note | Posted 10/4/2013 |
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